8th Grade Animated Sentences: Global Issues

For this assignment, 8th grade students created "animated sentences", which are actual Movie Maker files in which the students seek to focus on particular global issues that concern them.


The criteria for the assignment is attached just below:

Sphere Tutorial (click on document to view in full)

This tutorial is a Photoshop-based "side project" that I like to offer to students as a suppliment to different projects (i.e., web design templates) that we will be working on. The instructional goal of this tutorial is to provide students with a value (as in light and dark) based system of shading that utililizes a numeric scale of percentages. The student objective is to be able to compose a three-dimensional shape using a fairly basic system that incorporates both geometry and basic math.
I have attached the PDF files (above) for further viewing.

Student work for Latin: Devine Infomercials PowerPoint Logo and Bumper Sticker designs (current 8th Grade assignment)

(Above) Campaign Bumper Stickers and Latin Deity Logos (click on image to enlarge)

OBJECTIVE: Each student is to create both a logo and bumper sticker that will help his/her cause in an overall campaign to become "Supreme Ruler of the Universe." The bumper stickers include campaign slogans, or phrases that should pursuade one's peers to vote either he/she is the Supreme Ruler of the Universe!

Working With Personal Computers (current 7th grade assignment)

Working With Personal Computers is the new module set that the seventh grade students will be working with. The purpose of these assignments will be to provide a working foundation for how computers run and are operated. Students will also engage in computer-based activities that propose real-world solutions, such as, having to allocate a budget for purchasing a software set for four working types (family, business owner, graphic designer, and college student). The student must find solutions to meet the challenges that they may very well encounter in the years to come!

*UPDATE**(11/11/09)

All seventh grade classes have begun this module. What I would like for you to do is to post a comment about how much money you were able to save per user (for example, I was able to save $91.00 as the Home User, I saved $4.14 as the College Student...)

EVALUATIONS: Friday, November 13th. You will receive two grades: 1.) the information that you saved in your work folders will be evaluated (make sure it is completed) and 2.) your scores will be recorded for the nine question follow-up to the "Selecting Software" activity.

Digital Arts Bloggers Where Are You?

This is the first-ever blog for Mr. Woolery! This blog will be for students, friends, and contemporaries alike! That's about all I have for now!